Gen EDGE

  • 1.  REST Web Service and CA GEN

    Posted Nov 11, 2014 12:28 PM

    Does GEN support REST web services?  If not is there a plan to support REST in the near future?



  • 2.  Re: REST Web Service and CA GEN

    Posted Nov 11, 2014 12:44 PM

    With the new CA App Services Orchestrator (ASO) product (due out next year), Gen SOAP web services can have a REST front-end added to them.  Also, Gen Studio is in the process of being modifies so that Gen SOAP web service definitions may be published to the CA API Gateway (formerly Layer 7) which the CA ASO uses for converting service definitions from SOAP to REST.

     

    Although Gen does publish and consume SOAP web services, it does not currently natively support REST web services (proxies may be wrapped to in order to publish REST services and the new action diagram Inline Code statement may be used to consume them).  If this functionality is desirable, please add one or more Ideas to the EDGE community so that the community can show their interest in us providing these capabilities.  Also, so that we may found out how these capabilities might best be provided (in my mind, just putting a REST interface on a service doesn't really provide the full benefits of using REST in a HATEOAS architecture).



  • 3.  Re: REST Web Service and CA GEN

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Nov 12, 2014 01:45 AM

    CA Services (Optimization Services for CA Gen) has developed the Web API Designer for CA Gen, which lets you design a REST API interface to Gen procedures or action blocks, without requiring any technical knowledge of REST.

     

    The following REST frameworks are currently supported: Apache Wink (natively available on WebSphere) and JBoss RESTEasy.

     

    Status is currently beta.



  • 4.  Re: REST Web Service and CA GEN

    Posted Mar 13, 2016 07:10 PM

    If you are a mainframe customer, and interested in exposing REST services directly from CICS, then Response Systems have a product specifically for this called Web Services GENius.  This allows you to publish a REST service directly to CICS from any action block or pstep in any existing model, without needing to know anything about the underlying technologies, and without any changes to your CA Gen applications.  If you would like some more information about that, please either have a look at Response Systems :: CICS Web Services for CA Gen or drop me a note to tim.dargavel@response-systems.com and we can discuss in more detail.